Pleasure of RuinsWalker, 1967 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 173
... towers fine views of the prospect of ruins that was fourteenth - century Rome . " Rome resembled a huge field , encircled with moss - covered walls , with tracts of wild and cultivated land , from which rose gloomy towers or castles ...
... towers fine views of the prospect of ruins that was fourteenth - century Rome . " Rome resembled a huge field , encircled with moss - covered walls , with tracts of wild and cultivated land , from which rose gloomy towers or castles ...
Pagina 303
... towers of Ninfa thrust up through their tangle of green . Norba , a Roman military colony of the fifth century B.C. , was destroyed by Sulla's generals — or destroyed itself , like Numantia and Sagunto - during the Marian wars ; it was ...
... towers of Ninfa thrust up through their tangle of green . Norba , a Roman military colony of the fifth century B.C. , was destroyed by Sulla's generals — or destroyed itself , like Numantia and Sagunto - during the Marian wars ; it was ...
Pagina 307
... towers , medieval farm - houses , shattered fragments of Rome , and the paved highways along which the legions ... towers and tombs line the roads and strew the reedy earth ; Orsini towers , Colonna towers , all the strongholds of the ...
... towers , medieval farm - houses , shattered fragments of Rome , and the paved highways along which the legions ... towers and tombs line the roads and strew the reedy earth ; Orsini towers , Colonna towers , all the strongholds of the ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS | 311 |
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